Q. Describe one way how a skill you learned in a previous job helped you in your new job. Speaking in front of a live audience (and on TV) when I was the director of the Advisory Committee on Transparency taught me to enjoy speaking in public.

Q. Most underrated virtue in an employee? The ability to see around corners and anticipate what might happen next.

Q. What can Silicon Valley teach DC? That failure is okay. It’s important to innovate, to try new things, to take a risk--that just because things were done a certain way is not a good reason to keep doing it that way.

Q. What can DC teach Silicon Valley? How to access the knowledge and wisdom distributed among the libraries, think tanks, policymakers, wonks, lobbyists, and civil servants that make our government work.